Catherine Browder’s second story collection is characterized by
its striking range of narrative voices. In "Silver Maple," a sheriff’s
wife is jailed for threatening a work crew preparing to cut down her
beloved maple; in "Pizza Man," a Ukrainian emigré learns the hard
wayabout the perils of his new delivery job; and in "Fusada the
Archer," an American woman married to a Japanese businessman
apprentices herself to a traditional archer. 

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CATHERINE BROWDER grew up in many different places in a family 
that hosted many foreign visitors. She studied in England and later 
worked in Taiwan and Japan. She attended the Iowa Writers’ 
Workshop and completed an M.A. at the University of Missouri–
Kansas City. The recipient of a fiction fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Arts, she has had stories published in Prairie
Schooner, American Fiction, and Kansas Quarterly. Her first
story collection, The Clay That Breathes, was published in 1991.
She lives with her husband in Kansas City, Missouri.



What people are saying about this book

"Catherine Browder takes us to the heart of so many convincing
characters with such disparate lives that she seems to be half writer,
half magician. Beautiful stories."—Ann Patchett